1.0 link 92589 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-a-rodman/the-perpetual-achievement_b_92589.html When I was fourteen -- the same age as my own son is now -- I came across, or, more likely, was given, a copy of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. I was in my black turtleneck phase, taking each Friday the E train to bohemia (West Village branch), so the book was a natural. I remember the cover; I remember what it said (or what, at fourteen, I thought it said); but most of all, I remembered the...

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